Alastair P.

I'm a Masters student at McGill university in Montreal. I work as a Digital humanities researcher, specialising in Music. I'm interested in solutions to help people understand, store, and search for music and other humanities related data.

I normally work with Java, Python, and C++, and have experience with database layers such as MySQL and Postgres. I also have experience with NoSQL systems such as Tokyo Tyrant, CouchDB, MongoDB, Solr. I know HTML, Javascript, and other web frontend technologies. I have used Hadoop for real-world analysis...

In the last 10 years I have worked in small 2-3 person teams, as well as large groups of developers writing bespoke applications for 200 users.

I have experience communicating directly with clients to determine their exact requirements for a project. I like to finalise most details before a project starts but I understand that requirements change and sometimes something will need to be altered. I try to get early prototypes to clients in order to minimise the amount of changes that might be needed at the end of a project.

I'm an active open source developer, with an interest in music-related applications. Many of my projects are available for download on my github account at http://github.com/alastair/

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